I’m on my way to VSS, and I’m really looking forward to showing our latest work on predicting retinotopic organization from brain anatomy at scale! Tuesday morning at the Pavilion (#477)!

Saturday, May 16, 5:45pm in Talk Room 2, I'll be talking about a rich epistemic demonstration of how semantically-rich objects can scaffold our memory of meaningless surface features. w/ @yonghoonchung.bsky.social & @violastoermer.bsky.social

The B&C Lab is excited to attend the @vssmtg.bsky.social. William, @sabomelinda.bsky.social, and @irenetxeberria.bsky.social will each present posters. Lab alumni @danielagresch.bsky.social and @jamalamal.bsky.social will also present projects conducted in collaboration with the B&C Lab. #VSS2026

The Brady Lab (@timbrady.bsky.social) is coming to @vssmtg.bsky.social #VSS2026 ! Here's some of the work you will hear about:

heading to #vss2026 this week👀come chat with me about all things predictive learning, metacognition, successor representations & perception🤩! ✨eager to be giving a talk in the decision-making session on tues at noon!✨ @vssmtg.bsky.social

@wmsymposium.bsky.social 📢 📢 📢 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS OPEN 📢 📢 📢 The #workingmemory Symposium will be held online July 14-17, 2026. 🥳 🎤🎤🎤Talks will be either a standard 12-minute length (with 3 minutes for Q&A), or a 3-minute data "blitz" style presentation. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Development and validation of an AI-generated real-world object stimuli set - new paper led by Gerard Campbell, now out in Behaviour Research Methods. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

⚠️🚨We still have open spots for "Using Virtual Reality (VR) – A practical Workshop on using the Open VR package EDIA" led by @alexandroskas.bsky.social, @flxklotz.bsky.social & Jeroen de Mooij. 🚨⚠️ Please spread the word! 🔗 Registration: tinyurl.com/5ck47c3u 🔗 Details: tinyurl.com/tm5xvy58 #PuG2026

In collaboration with @monicarosenb.bsky.social , we showed that individual diffs in LTM encoding is uniquely predicted by inter-electrode correlations even controlling for working memory abilities. This suggests that WM & LTM encoding are separate abilities coded by different neural signatures! 1/n

I am so happy to have been a part of this + @antonlukashevich.bsky.social The study is actually immensely important IMO. So many studies have been designed under the assumption that the link between CDA and individual differences in memory is large and robust. We find that this is not the case. 1/N

A multi-lab replication effort (@eegmanylabs.bsky.social) of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) has just been published online! In brief, the set-size effect appears to be robustly observed, but CDA correlation with VWM capacity is not reliably strong. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I will retire from the VU this year (but not from doing science). As a full-circle moment: here is paper on the paradigm with which it all started for me some 35 years ago, in the journal where it all started. A paper on the do’s and don’ts using the additional singleton paradigm. rdcu.be/ffUfa

Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.

Some new content again, people: Dames, H., Popov, V., & Oberauer, K. (2026). Forget For Now, but Remember Later: Can People Selectively Remove Information From Working Memory While Keeping it in Long-Term Memory? Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 25, pp. 1–22. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

Excited to share our new paper on how distraction affects memory retrieval. Using a continuous report paradigm, we show that distraction reduces whether memories are accessed but not how precisely they are represented. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Souza tracked open science adoption in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance over 8 years. Data sharing went from near zero to 88%. Sample size justification hit ~100%. Editorial policy works if you actually enforce it. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... 🧪

"Gaze patterns reveal attention-based modulation of lure discrimination" 📢New paper from: Tarek Amer, Jordana Wynn, Margaret Porterfield, Daniel Schacter, & Lila Davachi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @tarekamer.bsky.social ky.social @jordwynn.bsky.social @liladavachi.bsky.social

After hundreds of studies on the retro-cue effect in working memory, we thought that we understood what caused it. Not quite - check out our new paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Came across what I assume to be an interesting version of “going into industry”… with splendid results!

Effects of TMS on the Decoding and Electrophysiology of Priority in Working Memory www.eneuro.org/content/13/4... More evidence for a (not-inhibitory) role for oscillatory dynamics in the low beta band in the encoding of priority in WM

We have 3 PhD positions at our department (www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...). Know a good student interested in working with me on perception / visual memory? I'd be happy to support the proposal! A catch: this person must speak a Scandinavian language as the position implies some teaching duties.

The stats are in for last year: JEP:HPP had a 72% rejection rate in 2025, a time to decision of less than 2 weeks, a total time from submissions to online publication of ~3 months. Consider JEPHPP for your best work! #Perception #CognitivePsychology

New paper in PBR: "Working memory’s pointer system is governed by physical objecthood, not spatiotemporal information" rdcu.be/fd2tY Without valid WM pointers, we miss OBVIOUS changes in visible items; the study shows that this "resetting" process is all about objects and not spatiotemporal change!

If you know of a graduating senior who might want to spend a gap year in @jmhenderson.bsky.social's productive, supportive, and fun lab, pass along this ad for a full-time, NIH-funded RA position! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07601?fbc...

Congratulations to @m-delem.bsky.social and Damien Le Clézio for their masterful presentation of our work on the benefits of aphantasia on reasoning. And thank you for the invitation Aphantasia Network 🤩 aphantasia.com/video/aphant...

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I just remembered I gave a talk on this work at the 2025 meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society, for those interested: vimeo.com/1170041564?s...

The "2-body problem" affects many in #AcademicSky & #PsychSciSky. Join us April 28, 2pm EDT, for an open & honest conversation with women who have navigated this reality firsthand. Jointly organized by @sparksociety.bsky.social @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social Register: tinyurl.com/yc86by7f

📢 Rare academic 💎 alert 📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) in Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience @ Swinburne (Melbourne). Teach a brand‑new degree + access MRI, MEG, EEG & TMS/tDCS. ⏰ Apply by 17 May 2026, 11 pm 🔗 swinjobs.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm... Reach out for more info.

Exciting news for ICOM7 (International Conference on Memory), in Glasgow, 26th-30th July 2027. The conference website is live and we can announce our keynote speakers!

Our new review with Berna Güler (@bernaguler.bsky.social) is out! We ask a basic but under-specified question: What shapes the segmented nature of episodic memories?

New paper out 🧠 We synthesize findings from aging, ADHD, dyslexia & OCD and propose that event segmentation emerges from the interaction of attention, working memory, and schemas/contextual modulation. Curious to hear your thoughts! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Another new one from the lab in J Neurosci: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Evidence accumulation is a core principle by which brains convert information into decisions. But what happens when the evidence the brain needs can't be directly read from an external stimulus or memory? 1/N

Our new preprint w/ @zhaochong.bsky.social and Ed Vogel investigates two major memory effects, list-length and serial position, with ERPs and EEG decoding. We find that neural correlates of these effects are dissociable osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our next (NSF-funded) OPAM workshop will feature Dr Sarah Merrill (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) presenting on NSF GRFP and Fellowship Applications. Please join us for the workshop on May 7th at 1pm EST). Zoom link available here: www.opamconference.com/workshops-su...

A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I wrote up something that's been in my head for a while: psychometric methods alone can't tell us what cognitive tasks and their indicators measure. Correlating indicators across tasks is circular when constructs are defined by those same correlations. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/3

Can we remove information from working memory and still maintain it in the long term - or the other way around? It turns out to be difficult. If you want to know more, check out our new paper: journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...

1/n New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human? We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

WM postdocs! Just a reminder to please submit your application for WMS organizer before March 29th if you care about fostering an empowering community of WM researchers!

Proud of this one, led by former lab student Ali Caron (not on bluesky) and online at @jocn.bsky.social. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Super excited to share that our paper, “Multiple Partially Overlapping Neural Modules Orchestrate Conflict Processing,” has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉 1/n w/ @tgro.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social Edmund Wascher, Patrick Gajewski direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

Only 5 days left!!!

We recently warned of bots in online behavioral research. @achetverikov.bsky.social showed there is no evidence for that in our @joinprolific.bsky.social data - but that doesn't mean we're safe. Agentic AI can do behavioral tasks through prompting alone. Reply & videos: osf.io/3cztr/overview

The effect of sequence stability on serial dependence jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Just a few more days left to apply! Come join our lab!🥳

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...